Ray W. Fuller
Ray W. Fuller (born December 16, 1935 , † August 11, 1996 in Greenwood , Indiana ) was an American biochemist who developed the antidepressant Prozac with Bryan B. Molloy , Klaus Schmiegel and David T. Wong .
Life
He grew up on a farm in Dongola , earned his bachelor's degree in chemistry from Southern Illinois University Carbondale in 1957 and his master's degree in microbiology in 1958 . While he was still in college, he worked at a state psychiatric clinic, where his interest in the brain and psychiatric drugs began. His Ph.D. in biochemistry from Purdue University in 1961 . He then spent two years at Fort Wayne State Hospital in Indiana for the mentally retarded as the head of the biochemical research laboratory and in 1963 went to the research laboratory of Eli Lilly and Company where he looked for new antidepressants and in the early 1970s co-developed Prozac, which was marketed from 1988 .
Web links
- To the Prozac developers at Chemical Heritage
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Southern Illinois University at Carbondale: Ray W. Fuller
- Ray W. Fuller, 60, biochemist and co-discoverer of Prozac
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| SURNAME | Fuller, Ray W. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American biochemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 16, 1935 |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 11, 1996 |
| Place of death | Greenwood , Indiana |